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Joseph Mallord William Turner
English Romantic Painter, 1775-1851 Joseph Mallord William Turner (23 April 1775 ?C 19 December 1851) was an English Romantic landscape painter, watercolourist and printmaker, whose style is said to have laid the foundation for Impressionism. Although Turner was considered a controversial figure in his day, he is now regarded as the artist who elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting. Turner's talent was recognised early in his life. Financial independence allowed Turner to innovate freely; his mature work is characterised by a chromatic palette and broadly applied atmospheric washes of paint. According to David Piper's The Illustrated History of Art, his later pictures were called "fantastic puzzles." However, Turner was still recognised as an artistic genius: the influential English art critic John Ruskin described Turner as the artist who could most "stirringly and truthfully measure the moods of Nature." (Piper 321) Suitable vehicles for Turner's imagination were to be found in the subjects of shipwrecks, fires (such as the burning of Parliament in 1834, an event which Turner rushed to witness first-hand, and which he transcribed in a series of watercolour sketches), natural catastrophes, and natural phenomena such as sunlight, storm, rain, and fog. He was fascinated by the violent power of the sea, as seen in Dawn after the Wreck (1840) and The Slave Ship (1840). Turner placed human beings in many of his paintings to indicate his affection for humanity on the one hand (note the frequent scenes of people drinking and merry-making or working in the foreground), but its vulnerability and vulgarity amid the 'sublime' nature of the world on the other hand. 'Sublime' here means awe-inspiring, savage grandeur, a natural world unmastered by man, evidence of the power of God - a theme that artists and poets were exploring in this period. The significance of light was to Turner the emanation of God's spirit and this was why he refined the subject matter of his later paintings by leaving out solid objects and detail, concentrating on the play of light on water, the radiance of skies and fires. Although these late paintings appear to be 'impressionistic' and therefore a forerunner of the French school, Turner was striving for expression of spirituality in the world, rather than responding primarily to optical phenomena. Rain, Steam and Speed - The Great Western Railway painted (1844).His early works, such as Tintern Abbey (1795), stayed true to the traditions of English landscape. However, in Hannibal Crossing the Alps (1812), an emphasis on the destructive power of nature had already come into play. His distinctive style of painting, in which he used watercolour technique with oil paints, created lightness, fluency, and ephemeral atmospheric effects. (Piper 321) One popular story about Turner, though it likely has little basis in reality, states that he even had himself "tied to the mast of a ship in order to experience the drama" of the elements during a storm at sea. In his later years he used oils ever more transparently, and turned to an evocation of almost pure light by use of shimmering colour. A prime example of his mature style can be seen in Rain, Steam and Speed - The Great Western Railway, where the objects are barely recognizable. The intensity of hue and interest in evanescent light not only placed Turner's work in the vanguard of English painting, but later exerted an influence upon art in France, as well; the Impressionists, particularly Claude Monet, carefully studied his techniques.

 

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Change green oil painting

Painting ID::  55179

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Change green
mk239 1928 49.8x24.7cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner No title oil painting

Painting ID::  55180

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
No title
mk239 1930 22.3x16.1cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner Close oil painting

Painting ID::  55181

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Close
mk239 1930 Oil on canvas 49.2x36.8cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner Climb oil painting

Painting ID::  55182

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Climb
mk239 1931 Watercolour 48.1x61cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner Level oil painting

Painting ID::  55183

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Level
mk239 1930 oil on canvas 35x49cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner Light oil painting

Painting ID::  55184

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Light
mk239 1931 Watercolour 34.2x34.8cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner Depression oil painting

Painting ID::  55185

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Depression
mk239 1933 Watercolour 47.3x66.8cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner Three arrowhead oil painting

Painting ID::  55186

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Three arrowhead
mk239 1931
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner Line oil painting

Painting ID::  55187

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Line
mk239 1931 48x25.9cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner Draw oil painting

Painting ID::  55188

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Draw
mk239 1932 Oil painting 49x70cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner Stress oil painting

Painting ID::  55189

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Stress
mk239 1934 8.4x80.7cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner Continue oil painting

Painting ID::  55190

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Continue
mk239 1935 oil on canvas 81x100cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner Purple oil painting

Painting ID::  55191

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Purple
mk239 1934 130x162cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner Spread oil painting

Painting ID::  55192

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Spread
mk239 1934 53x30cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner Black spot oil painting

Painting ID::  55193

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Black spot
mk239 1935 116x89cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner Structure number 9 oil painting

Painting ID::  55194

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Structure number 9
mk239 Oil on canvas 1936 Oil on canvas 114x195cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner Two part oil painting

Painting ID::  55195

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Two part
mk239 1940 Oil on canvas 89x116cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner Accompany oil painting

Painting ID::  55196

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Accompany
mk239 1937 Oil on canvas 114x146cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner Group oil painting

Painting ID::  55197

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Group
mk239 1938 116x89cm
   
   
     

 

 

Joseph Mallord William Turner Shape oil painting

Painting ID::  55198

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Shape
mk239 1937 88.9x116.3cm
   
   
     

 

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Joseph Mallord William Turner
English Romantic Painter, 1775-1851 Joseph Mallord William Turner (23 April 1775 ?C 19 December 1851) was an English Romantic landscape painter, watercolourist and printmaker, whose style is said to have laid the foundation for Impressionism. Although Turner was considered a controversial figure in his day, he is now regarded as the artist who elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting. Turner's talent was recognised early in his life. Financial independence allowed Turner to innovate freely; his mature work is characterised by a chromatic palette and broadly applied atmospheric washes of paint. According to David Piper's The Illustrated History of Art, his later pictures were called "fantastic puzzles." However, Turner was still recognised as an artistic genius: the influential English art critic John Ruskin described Turner as the artist who could most "stirringly and truthfully measure the moods of Nature." (Piper 321) Suitable vehicles for Turner's imagination were to be found in the subjects of shipwrecks, fires (such as the burning of Parliament in 1834, an event which Turner rushed to witness first-hand, and which he transcribed in a series of watercolour sketches), natural catastrophes, and natural phenomena such as sunlight, storm, rain, and fog. He was fascinated by the violent power of the sea, as seen in Dawn after the Wreck (1840) and The Slave Ship (1840). Turner placed human beings in many of his paintings to indicate his affection for humanity on the one hand (note the frequent scenes of people drinking and merry-making or working in the foreground), but its vulnerability and vulgarity amid the 'sublime' nature of the world on the other hand. 'Sublime' here means awe-inspiring, savage grandeur, a natural world unmastered by man, evidence of the power of God - a theme that artists and poets were exploring in this period. The significance of light was to Turner the emanation of God's spirit and this was why he refined the subject matter of his later paintings by leaving out solid objects and detail, concentrating on the play of light on water, the radiance of skies and fires. Although these late paintings appear to be 'impressionistic' and therefore a forerunner of the French school, Turner was striving for expression of spirituality in the world, rather than responding primarily to optical phenomena. Rain, Steam and Speed - The Great Western Railway painted (1844).His early works, such as Tintern Abbey (1795), stayed true to the traditions of English landscape. However, in Hannibal Crossing the Alps (1812), an emphasis on the destructive power of nature had already come into play. His distinctive style of painting, in which he used watercolour technique with oil paints, created lightness, fluency, and ephemeral atmospheric effects. (Piper 321) One popular story about Turner, though it likely has little basis in reality, states that he even had himself "tied to the mast of a ship in order to experience the drama" of the elements during a storm at sea. In his later years he used oils ever more transparently, and turned to an evocation of almost pure light by use of shimmering colour. A prime example of his mature style can be seen in Rain, Steam and Speed - The Great Western Railway, where the objects are barely recognizable. The intensity of hue and interest in evanescent light not only placed Turner's work in the vanguard of English painting, but later exerted an influence upon art in France, as well; the Impressionists, particularly Claude Monet, carefully studied his techniques.